SUPER EASY Raised Garden Beds: Step-by-Step Guide for Beginners
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- Опубликовано: 15 сен 2024
- How to build a simple, effective raised garden bed on a budget in about an hour. Yep, it's possible!
We'll make it strong, durable and attractive with smart material choices an we'll keep it simple with an easy design perfect for beginner gardeners. We've built (and bought) lots of raised beds, but this one is our favorite because it checks all the boxes gardeners really care about.
Wood and corrugated metal prices are through the roof so you'll be happy to know this design also keeps your wallet happy without any compromises.
Join us as we add some of our favorite raised beds to the garden! Let's get into it!
Materials Used in This Video (and optional variants):
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Redwood planks: www.homedepot....
Cedar fence boards: www.homedepot....
redwood fence boards: www.homedepot....
Redwood corner post 2x4's: www.homedepot....
2" decking screws: www.homedepot....
Tools we used in this video:
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Cordless Drill and Saw: No recommendation here because it depends on the ecosystem of tools you've invested in. Sorry! Remember to take advantage of help at the lumber yard if you don't have a saw you can safely utilize.
Carpenters Square: www.harborfrei...
Measuring Tape: www.harborfrei...
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Excellent “How to build an open air doghouse” video 😂
He's so ridiculous. Everything outside has to be tested for bed qualities.
Thoroughly enjoying your professional, informational, and calm videos!
Well that's high praise - thank you! I'm glad you appreciate the tone - it's nice to make calmer videos sometimes =)
Hi there, I just found your channel. I'm watching now. So is my cat. My cat enjoys your energy/voice/advice because he can't keep his eyes off of you. Ha! I'll watch more; I've subscribed. Thank so much for all your wisdom. It's helping. Peace, Bonnie Concrete, WA, zone 8b
It is my great honor to entertain your cat! Thanks for joining up and I wish you the best of luck in your garden this year =)
It really was a kick to watch. Much good luck to you!
Thank you for making a easy video that I can just send to my husband and he knows exactly what I want
Hahahaha love it! Hope you like them!
We just filled one up for a bigger strawberry bed. Super excited.
@@NextdoorHomestead that is very exciting. I have strawberries to come back every year but I only end up eating a few. Unfortunately I don’t know how to keep rabbits or squirrels out of my garden yet.
@@Conuremomof2try sprinkling cayenne pepper on the strawberries. A harmless snout of pepper will deter them. Works for mice and rats who also don’t like mint, which grows like a weed here.
Thank you for this. I will be making one this weekend.
I hope it went well! One of my favorite projects for sure =)
Love the Boss. Nice video, thank you.
I've been lucky with building raised beds, because there's a factory not too terribly far from me that sets out tons of pallets free for the taking. They're quite heavy duty too, with slats about an inch thick. They are heat treated, but I haven't seen methyl bromide stamps or anything. I've built numerous things from them, including a chicken coop. For the raised beds, I basically spend my time and some of those decking screws. It's great. The Redwood looks great, but I'm trying to cheap out. I tried the cedar fence picket back when lumber prices were insane, and yeah, it didn't pan out. They look bad, and the wood is super thin and bowed easily.
Nice! I haven't done the pallet beds (I like the way they come out though) but I'm surprised to hear your cedar pickets bowed out. I had surprisingly good luck with them in our last garden that was built during the height of the pandemic lumber surge.
Thanks for watching!
I just found your channel and am soooo glad I did. I am in Phoenix, zone 9b, and appreciate your scientific approach. I believe I read you were in zone B as well…thank you for your content!
Glad to help 😁
I hope you're looking forward to summer (even if it's scorching ;)
Always interested in more knowledge. But here’s an idea : what about showing us an elevated garden bed? For those of us who have no yard, are older or have a disability and can’t bed over a ground level garden bed.
Thanks for sharing your experiences with us. I just happened to find your YT channel. Glad I did. What stated are you located?
Heya! Thanks for watching. Are you looking for a build guide for that kind of bed or more of a best practices on how to use them? We do have a bit of experience with both so just curious.
Thank you for creating another awesome video! Will you upload new videos weekly?
Thank you kindly! I'm not quite sure what schedule would make sense yet; we've got lots of ideas =)
@@NextdoorHomestead thank you for all you do! Would love to learn more about some home preservation techniques as well.
Due to health reasons, the 1 foot height is too short for me. How do I raise these up to where I don't have to bend over to garden?
Heya! Do you want to have open-bottom beds like these (but taller) or container-style beds up on legs?
Is redwood just cedar? I thought redwood was generally protected now?
Heya! Nope, they have similar properties for the raised bed project, but different trees. Redwood is still harvested, just from younger commercial farms now rather than old growth (which is one reason it's not as durable as the old stuff). Old growth redwood forests are thankfully protected.
Redwood is a west coast thing. They don’t even have redwood at Home Depot in the east. In California we had beautiful redwood everything but now that we’re back in North Carolina, we have beautiful cedar beds.
This isn't what super easy is
Fair enough. I'm only familiar with one method that would be simpler but it has plenty of tradeoffs. What's your favorite option?